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it's kind of like u.s. is analogous to the u.s. government responsibility and there is a beautiful book called the people's privilege which tops out to leave the -- talks about the small the when they killed reverend lovejoy was an abolitionist. they killed him and they destroyed the press because they didn't like what he had to say. he pointed out in the moment when not only does the free speech mean they can't send to you but it also means they manage to protect you from the mall that wants to sensor you. 77 it is to make sure that the administration prevents them from happening and they do their best to prevent it from happening because it is a dual responsibility. the position is they can't let the mog sensor you. of a perfect example when the forces can together to work as one, and it is in the bucket is almost an unbelievable case, washington state university, a student wrote a play in the passion of the musical with of the stated goal of attending offending everybody. they put it on the ticket, they put it everywhere. do not
it's kind of like u.s. is analogous to the u.s. government responsibility and there is a beautiful book called the people's privilege which tops out to leave the -- talks about the small the when they killed reverend lovejoy was an abolitionist. they killed him and they destroyed the press because they didn't like what he had to say. he pointed out in the moment when not only does the free speech mean they can't send to you but it also means they manage to protect you from the mall that wants...
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as of devotee in this room knows, you were a teenager when the police swept u.s. and put you on trial for the murder. what was the point if there was one where you realized that this was really happening actually not a mistake, not something was going to be our year in doubt when you were arrested was it during the trial was it ten years into being in prison? >> it happens gradually you go back and forth. when you are arrested i was a child myself, i was 18-years-old and a very 90's about how the system worked. i had been raised in this belief that the system is based on innocent until proven guilty, and i thought there is no way they can actually prove that you've done something that you haven't done that should be scientifically impossible but it wasn't. they didn't and it was a part of the place when they would come back and say guilty but there's also they would come back and start sensing you are hearing this to death not once or twice but three times. that's when you realize nobody is going to step up and help your with a stop to that a respected you think t
as of devotee in this room knows, you were a teenager when the police swept u.s. and put you on trial for the murder. what was the point if there was one where you realized that this was really happening actually not a mistake, not something was going to be our year in doubt when you were arrested was it during the trial was it ten years into being in prison? >> it happens gradually you go back and forth. when you are arrested i was a child myself, i was 18-years-old and a very 90's about...
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. >> which u.s. government policies perpetuate the transfer of wealth and the top 1% and could you rank them in importance? >> that would take all night >> please address the tax inequities between air did come and capital gains the federal reserve's policy of lower interest rates and the of this this of spending rather than saving and the reward given to borrowers rather than saver's spirit that famous line from harry met sally i will have what she had. i would single out the carried interest. that is amazing. also four years of a democratic president he has not managed to build that back. how can that be? also would is amazing i have yet to talk to a private equity% of matter how their barrel. they serve did the. added ministrations. you talk about this. is fabulous but it is unfair. they are adamant it is absolutely morally and and raged. not because it makes such a difference if you are paul ryan use say come on. it does not make much of the difference but the injustice is in reaching. also regul
. >> which u.s. government policies perpetuate the transfer of wealth and the top 1% and could you rank them in importance? >> that would take all night >> please address the tax inequities between air did come and capital gains the federal reserve's policy of lower interest rates and the of this this of spending rather than saving and the reward given to borrowers rather than saver's spirit that famous line from harry met sally i will have what she had. i would single out the...
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because the u.s. treasury borrowed the money, the surpluses that have been existing until two years ago, they took that money and spent it. but the social security trustees asked that they have it, that they have debt instruments to establish the debt that they loaned to the treasury. they didn't give it to the treasury. it was a social security payees', recipients' money. so it was loaned to the government, the debt instrument shows the debt and the treasury pays the interest to the social security trustees. and now for the first time, instead of having a surplus which the treasury can spend and buy votes with, we have a deficit, and boy, it's just beginning. it's already on a path to surge out of control and threatening the future of social security, and i would just note that it would add how does a government pay the money it owes to social security? it's already spent the money. you borrow the money from the bank, you spend it and the bank says i want to be paid back. what happens? well, the fede
because the u.s. treasury borrowed the money, the surpluses that have been existing until two years ago, they took that money and spent it. but the social security trustees asked that they have it, that they have debt instruments to establish the debt that they loaned to the treasury. they didn't give it to the treasury. it was a social security payees', recipients' money. so it was loaned to the government, the debt instrument shows the debt and the treasury pays the interest to the social...
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and so i don't speak for the u.s. government, but i'm sure they will be taking further decision in the course of next year. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> take us post-2014, and, dame mariot, how would you envisage what nato's role would be at that stage? what's the remaining function of it? >> yes. i think, and it goes back to the question, i think the ansf will be sustainable, but they won't be on their own. and nato has already said it will have a training advisory assistance mission which will be a new one doing just that, not in combat. but that won't be the only thing that will be there. there will be the international community's overall support for governance, economic development, human development and so on in afghanistan, and that will be a very important -- [inaudible] to what nato will be doing. and there will be environmental programs as well. the nato process, which i think i beginning to describe, is that the north atlantic council has just launched the planning process by initiating directives. we've
and so i don't speak for the u.s. government, but i'm sure they will be taking further decision in the course of next year. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] >> take us post-2014, and, dame mariot, how would you envisage what nato's role would be at that stage? what's the remaining function of it? >> yes. i think, and it goes back to the question, i think the ansf will be sustainable, but they won't be on their own. and nato has already said it will have a training advisory...
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its high of on the hill and the u.s. capitol dome for the right it is really an amazing majestic view and it's open seven days a week, and the curator of the douglas contributed forward and this was important to me, too to make this book not just kind of -- to make active living histories of people that read the book if they've never been to the douglass house would say i want to go over there or if they haven't been there for a few years they can go back over and kind of revisit. >> he is the curator of the douglass house. >> he was the curator for many, many years. a very well-respected kind of a douglass community, and then dr. clifford who was the university archivist at the house contributed the foreword. john muller is the author of frederick douglass and washington, d.c. the line of anacostia. thank you very hatch. >> thank you. >> talks about the rise of the super rich the top .1% of the global population. and the impact they have in the world. the stock was hosted by politics and prose bookstore in washington, d
its high of on the hill and the u.s. capitol dome for the right it is really an amazing majestic view and it's open seven days a week, and the curator of the douglas contributed forward and this was important to me, too to make this book not just kind of -- to make active living histories of people that read the book if they've never been to the douglass house would say i want to go over there or if they haven't been there for a few years they can go back over and kind of revisit. >> he...